art-, arti- +

1. The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. The class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings; such as, a museum of art; an art collection.
3. A field, genre, or category of art: "Dance is an art that I love."
4. The fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture.
5. Any field using the skills or techniques of art; including, advertising art and industrial art.
6. Illustrative or decorative materials: "Do you have any art work to illustrate your web site?"
7. The principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning; such as, the art of baking and the art of selling.
8. Skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.
9. A branch of learning or university study; especially, one of the fine arts or the humanities, including music, philosophy, or literature.
10. Skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
11. Archaic: science, learning, or scholarship.
12. Etymology: from about 1225, "skill as a result of learning or practice", from Old French art, from Latin artem, ars, "art, skill, craft"; from base ar-, "fit together, join".

In Middle English, usually with the sense of "skill in scholarship and learning" (c.1305); especially, in the seven sciences, or liberal arts (divided into the trivium: grammar, logic, rhetoric; and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy). This sense remains in Bachelor of Arts, etc.

The meaning, "human workmanship" (as opposed to nature) is from 1386. The sense of "cunning and trickery" was first attested about 1600. The meaning, "skill in creative arts" is first recorded 1620; especially, regarding painting, sculpture, etc., from 1668.

The broader sense of the word remains in "artless" (1589). As an adjective meaning "produced with conscious artistry" (as opposed to popular or folk); it is attested from 1890, possibly from the influence of German kunstlied, "art song".

In fine arts, "those which appeal to the mind and the imagination" was first recorded in 1767. Arts and crafts, "decorative design and handcraft" was presented in the "Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society", founded in London, in 1888.

Preserved by skill.

By skill and courage.

By skill and toil (work).

By skill, valor, and energy.

Arts, science, truth.

Motto of the University of Michigan, USA.

Arts/sciences/humanities.

Motto of the New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA.

1. Exhibiting, or characterized by, art or skill.
2. Skillful in accomplishing a purpose; especially, by the use of cunning or craft; slyly crafty, cunning; deceitful; tricky; for example, artful schemes.
3. Skillful or clever in adapting means to ends; ingenious.

In an artful manner; clever and skillful, especially in getting what someone wants.

1. The quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage.
2. Characterized by skillfulness in accomplishing a purpose; especially, by the use of cunning or craft.

1. An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.
2. Something that appears to exist because of the way an object or data is examined; for example, a form of behavior that is indicated by a behavioral test.
3. A structure or feature not normally present but visible as a result of an external agent or action; such as, one seen in a microscopic specimen after fixation, or in an image produced by radiology or electrocardiography.
4. An inaccurate observation, effect, or result; especially, one resulting from the technology used in scientific investigation or from an experimental error: "The pattern in the data which was presented was an artifact of the way it was collected."

1. An artful or crafty expedient; a stratagem; trick intended to deceive or to ensnare.
2. A subtle but base deception; trickery.
3. Cleverness or skill; ingenuity.

1. Someone who is the first to think of or to make something.
2. A person who is skillful or clever in devising ways of making things; an inventor.
3. A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft.

1. Made by human skill; produced by humans; as, opposed to natural origins; such as, artificial flowers.
2. Imitation; simulated; sham: "She used artificial vanilla flavoring when baking the cake."
3. Lacking naturalness or spontaneity; forced; contrived; feigned: "She greeted us with an artificial smile."
4. Full of affectation; affected; stilted; for example, artificial manners, artificial speech.
5. Made without regard to the particular needs of a situation, person, etc.; imposed arbitrarily; unnatural: 'We thought the club presented artificial rules for membership."
6. Based on arbitrary, superficial characteristics rather than natural, organic relationships: "The botanists presented an artificial system of classification for the plants."
7. Manufactured to resemble a natural gem in jewelry, with chemical composition, and appearance.

1. Not according to nature; not genuine or natural.
2. Not by natural means: "The report consisted of artificially induced conditions."
3. Made in imitation of something natural; simulated: artificial teeth.